Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Friday, February 10, 2012
Can I have a word? Or 3 or 4?
Who needs speech therapy?!
We're doing all the work at home!
It's only been 10 days since I took the last video and already I can notice the difference between how Nick talks then and now!
And in case you don't get what he's saying...
He has started to play a game, he hides his hand and says "where is it?" then when it uncovers "there it is".
Nick is also using 3+ words in a sentence!
And he really loves talking. I could take videos all day, every day!
It just gives Nick an opportunity to clown around some more!
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Speaking in Tongues
I have talked about how Nick's language has blossomed! OK, he's a boy, so I guess I should say boomed!
He talks all the time.
And it has meaning.
I just don't always know what it is.
One morning he's eating breakfast and just talking, talking. I have no idea what - it's like I can pick up a couple words here and there. I swear he was talking in French! (a language I took all through school and know how to say "je ne parle pas francias". Anyone who knows french I'm sure just realized I butchered their language.)
There are alot of words that I understand. I started making a list, but everyone day there are so many more to add to the list that I can't get them all. He probably has 100, maybe more. And sentences.
I know other moms said it would happen, and I know that at the time I knew that it would happen (most of the time I knew it would happen), and I find it magical that it is actually happening now.
This is of course after we finish our block of speech therapy for 6 months! where we worked on communication and not actual speech.
Right at the very end of our block Nick was just starting to get his words, but he was still shy about it. Still not talking that much outside of the home.
We are no strangers to speech therapy.
Katheryn is still in speech therapy. Has been since I referred her at 18 months because she had about 6 words and should have had more than 10. It took about 9 months for her to be picked up, but we have been able to apply everything we have learned back and forth between the 2 kids.
Katheryn we have goals for pronunciation of specific letters (especially K, F, G but other letters as well). For Nick I have to make up my own goals because we just finished our block and the things we learned there just don't seem to apply any more.
I'm hoping that next session we can have the same speech therapist for both kids so we can all be on the same page.
I'm trying to figure out where to start, or if I'm pushing too hard for something that will come naturally on it's own. But i just have to remember how we progressed with Katheryn. I know it will come.
He talks all the time.
And it has meaning.
I just don't always know what it is.
One morning he's eating breakfast and just talking, talking. I have no idea what - it's like I can pick up a couple words here and there. I swear he was talking in French! (a language I took all through school and know how to say "je ne parle pas francias". Anyone who knows french I'm sure just realized I butchered their language.)
I know other moms said it would happen, and I know that at the time I knew that it would happen (most of the time I knew it would happen), and I find it magical that it is actually happening now.
This is of course after we finish our block of speech therapy for 6 months! where we worked on communication and not actual speech.
Right at the very end of our block Nick was just starting to get his words, but he was still shy about it. Still not talking that much outside of the home.
We are no strangers to speech therapy.
Katheryn is still in speech therapy. Has been since I referred her at 18 months because she had about 6 words and should have had more than 10. It took about 9 months for her to be picked up, but we have been able to apply everything we have learned back and forth between the 2 kids.
Katheryn we have goals for pronunciation of specific letters (especially K, F, G but other letters as well). For Nick I have to make up my own goals because we just finished our block and the things we learned there just don't seem to apply any more.
I'm hoping that next session we can have the same speech therapist for both kids so we can all be on the same page.
I'm trying to figure out where to start, or if I'm pushing too hard for something that will come naturally on it's own. But i just have to remember how we progressed with Katheryn. I know it will come.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Class Clown
Nick loves being silly and clowning around.
Whenever we ask him about colours, he says that every colour is blue.
He knows his colours, he doesn't think that every colour is blue. He just likes saying it.
Last week I asked him what colour something was. He says yellow, looks at me with this funny grin then says blue! Blue!
This picture doesn't adequately show the funny-devil grin, but it's the closest I have.
Today he was playing with Kyle on a farm animal mat.
What is this? Nick says dog, cat...
"Good Nick! point to the cow", he points.
"OK, what is this?"
He looks at Kyle, goofy grin.
Dog
"No Nick, it's not a dog, it's a cow."
Dog
Nick what is this? (pointing to the pig)
Dog
He thinks it hilarious!
He's been doing it with everything. Plate, no it's a bowl; plate! Plate!
Putting his socks on his head, or his knee or his hand.
Silliness, but it makes us all laugh.
I think this boy is definitely going to be the class clown.
Whenever we ask him about colours, he says that every colour is blue.
He knows his colours, he doesn't think that every colour is blue. He just likes saying it.
Last week I asked him what colour something was. He says yellow, looks at me with this funny grin then says blue! Blue!
This picture doesn't adequately show the funny-devil grin, but it's the closest I have.
Today he was playing with Kyle on a farm animal mat.
What is this? Nick says dog, cat...
"Good Nick! point to the cow", he points.
"OK, what is this?"
He looks at Kyle, goofy grin.
Dog
"No Nick, it's not a dog, it's a cow."
Dog
Nick what is this? (pointing to the pig)
Dog
He thinks it hilarious!
He's been doing it with everything. Plate, no it's a bowl; plate! Plate!
Putting his socks on his head, or his knee or his hand.
Silliness, but it makes us all laugh.
I think this boy is definitely going to be the class clown.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
You don't say!
Nick has decided to show off his vocabulary.
Everywhere but in speech therapy.
I call his therapist gushing about how many words he has (he exploded from 5 words to 40 in about 3 weeks). And how I want to refocus our sessions. So we go for a session.
Nothing.
Until about 10 minutes left in our session I left for the bathroom. He starts talking.
In sentences.
With complex sounds. (his favorite word is cheese - with the ch and the eese)
Sabrina (our therapist) had to quickly scribble everything down!
I come back in - nothing.
That kid! I swear he's such a stubborn little thing he wants to talk when he wants to talk. And if he doesn't want to, then he won't.
And we leave, he's chatting and waving bye, and saying "bye-bye 'bina" and pointing at pictures - there is Santa, home, car, no and on and on and on!
I've been trying to write down all of his words and how he says them, but he keeps having more and more every day! And yes that is what I was encouraged about, when I was so worried about his language. That it would just explore one day. Well it has exploded!
It was right around the time that Nick got his wheelchair trial (which we still have borrowed). I was told that this is common, once they find their independence the language will follow.
But Katheryn has a speech delay too (now 'labelled' moderate) and we are starting some session for her in the new year. But she has difficulty is different sounds and not actual words. Sometimes I forget that some kids don't have to work so hard at language (but I did - so I shouldn't be surprised). And in the long run they can all talk.
But understanding has never been an issue, maybe it's the Ridding stubbornness in both of them. Wanting to keep their thoughts a secret and keep their cards close.
(sorry no pictures - I'll try to add some later)
Everywhere but in speech therapy.
I call his therapist gushing about how many words he has (he exploded from 5 words to 40 in about 3 weeks). And how I want to refocus our sessions. So we go for a session.
Nothing.
Until about 10 minutes left in our session I left for the bathroom. He starts talking.
In sentences.
With complex sounds. (his favorite word is cheese - with the ch and the eese)
Sabrina (our therapist) had to quickly scribble everything down!
I come back in - nothing.
That kid! I swear he's such a stubborn little thing he wants to talk when he wants to talk. And if he doesn't want to, then he won't.
And we leave, he's chatting and waving bye, and saying "bye-bye 'bina" and pointing at pictures - there is Santa, home, car, no and on and on and on!
I've been trying to write down all of his words and how he says them, but he keeps having more and more every day! And yes that is what I was encouraged about, when I was so worried about his language. That it would just explore one day. Well it has exploded!
It was right around the time that Nick got his wheelchair trial (which we still have borrowed). I was told that this is common, once they find their independence the language will follow.
But Katheryn has a speech delay too (now 'labelled' moderate) and we are starting some session for her in the new year. But she has difficulty is different sounds and not actual words. Sometimes I forget that some kids don't have to work so hard at language (but I did - so I shouldn't be surprised). And in the long run they can all talk.
But understanding has never been an issue, maybe it's the Ridding stubbornness in both of them. Wanting to keep their thoughts a secret and keep their cards close.
(sorry no pictures - I'll try to add some later)
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